| Both, he reckons, are houses where we gamble for high stakes, and with high hopes. |
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| He was the golden boy, doing advertisements and endorsements, and we were full of high hopes. |
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| The man of sanguine temperament builds high hopes where the timid despair, and the irresolute are lost in doubt. |
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| Yes, folding the tent on investments whose high hopes are dashed is mighty distasteful. |
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| I was born in the late 1940s and I remember growing up what high hopes and exalted opinion we had of India's future and its leaders. |
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| About 17 years earlier, in 519 BC, the first exiles had returned from Babylon with high hopes of a new life. |
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| He now sets off this week with high hopes of earning enough prize money to guarantee his European Tour card. |
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| The man had wanted to get his second daughter married off and had actually had high hopes for Coleen. |
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| As things stand, a season that began with the usual high hopes of success in Europe still hangs by a thread. |
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| I have high hopes that he will be able to change the way we look at sports, for the better. |
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| I have high hopes for our world and the state of race relations and inclusion. |
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| Year after year, we count down the seconds until January 1 arrives, and we have such high hopes that the new year will be different. |
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| Two days before he was due to return home he suffered a leg injury which effectively wrecked his high hopes for the season. |
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| They had high hopes that the assembled powers would agree to an alleviation of the imposed restrictions. |
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| A city centre shop opened amid high hopes by the National Railway Museum less than two years ago has hit the buffers. |
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| When I first embarked on the research I was armed with only a very vague strategy and a lot of high hopes. |
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| Every prime minister has his ups and his downs, the fulfilment of high hopes and the materialisation of deepest dreads. |
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| He has very high hopes for the band and they are currently working hard in the belief that they can beat their own target of expectations. |
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| But both men believe the spirit of the schools remains unchanged and have high hopes for the future. |
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| The film was a smash hit and the dancers have high hopes that the ballet version of the drama will repeat that success in China. |
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| The promising photography raises high hopes and more or less continues for the rest of the film. |
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| The first Labour government took office in January amid high hopes from its supporters. |
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| But he is now fighting back, with a number of exciting new projects on the stocks, and the managing director has high hopes for the future. |
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| I'm sure they had hellacious high hopes for him, but it just didn't work out. |
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| A south Lakeland carpet manufacturer has high hopes that its latest flagship range will be a home-grown success story in more ways than one. |
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| I had very high hopes then, as I worked to launch child care programs that could help so many children and families in poverty. |
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| There is truly a problem there, and a connotation of political intervention in a bill for which we had high hopes. |
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| But this year there are high hopes for the Mill, an 18th century water-powered cotton and latterly saw mill believed to house the only surviving example of a Thompson turbine. |
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| Greece has high hopes that the giant tomb now being excavated at Amphipolis contains one of these ancient Macedonian leaders. |
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| Thompson may be no worse than Hynes, but his first year has been frustrating for advocates who once had high hopes for his tenure. |
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| Bierman, for one, has high hopes that ganjapreneurs in Florida and elsewhere will help show Americans the value of this industry. |
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| He hinted that his team could take both matches on the opening day but he said that he would not let his players be pressured by overly high hopes. |
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| We are very prouds and happy to have this buck with us and we have high hopes in the prolificity of this genetic line. |
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| They have created a public debt of such appalling magnitude that our descendants, for whom we had such high hopes, will come into this world as poor as church mice. |
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| Subsequently patients normally raise high hopes and expectations, that cannot always be realized completely. |
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| Any hint from economic indicators of such a dip is likely to unhinge shares, and to take the current high hopes with them. |
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| Officials express high hopes that the Doha festival will be a force for cross-cultural dialogue. |
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| But they were outplayed by a Ghana side who will now have high hopes of becoming the first African country to win FIFA U-20 World Cup. |
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| Eager, with high hopes, I soon felt the jolt of dashed expectations and hard-edged reality. |
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| I have high hopes and great expectations for Arctic science and technology and Northern progress in the years ahead. |
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| She has high hopes but I'm concerned that it will clash somehow with the ultrasonic cat scarer that's still going strong out in the garden on a stick. |
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| Of the high hopes that characterize the Western Aliyah souring so dramatically, so brutally. |
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| The balance, structure, and body of the whites match up to the high hopes we have for this vintage. |
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| This proposal is of high political importance as the fund has attracted wide interest and these are high hopes for its success. |
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| We have high hopes for your new mandate, given the excellent report, Quality End-of-Life Care, of the Senate Subcommittee which you chaired. |
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| Assuming it all comes together as planned, de Haas has high hopes for what the changes will bring in terms of business value. |
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| They all have high hopes, and we're going to live up to them and surpass them. |
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| They have high hopes for their dry sparkling wines, which mature in the cellars for a minimum of three years. |
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| But his father had high hopes for his children and decided to send him to stay with his sister in France in order to get a good education. |
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| Sonepar Italia has high hopes for Mazzi, and intends to support the company's efforts to ring in a successful 80 years in business next year. |
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| Who will save her and renew her high hopes? |
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| His grandfather, Yongle Emperor, had high hopes that he might play an important part to assist his father. |
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| Patterson, the guiding spirit of the many fruitless expeditions which were launched with such high hopes, forelived his time. |
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| Competition is not good or bad in itself. There is ethical competition, toward which all men who have a high opinion of themselves and high hopes for society are working. |
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| Research, political and economic circles have high hopes of so gaining competitive advantages, some even claiming to see the third industrial revolution on the horizon. |
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| The researchers have high hopes for so-called memory shape alloys, materials which can be bent into any required shape but which, on heating, return to their original form. |
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| It is a fact that research projects involving industrialised and developing countries are often geared to concrete problems and accordingly raise high hopes among the populations concerned. |
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| Member States place high hopes in UNESCO's ability to show the way out of this period of unprecedented uncertainty, and help set our world on a more inclusive and sustainable path. |
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| There are such high hopes in the mission that the warm reception that Darfurians have given it could very quickly degenerate into deep frustration. |
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| Taking into consideration the importance and results of the last two forums held in Madrid and Istanbul, we are looking forward to the next forum, expected to take place in Brazil in 2010, with high hopes and dedication. |
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| Actor Don Gilet has high hopes his new Tyneside-based police drama will get a second series. |
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| Representatives of non-governmental organizations who met with Mr. Allmand in Lagos last week expressed high hopes for this proposal but questioned whether it would ever see the light of day. |
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| It takes some time to train a horse, but I've got high hopes Blue will cut the mustard as a first class logger. |
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| One company she visited with high hopes is Toyota, where she gave her spiel for the virtues of locating in the Great Lakes State. |
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| Perhaps they had high hopes of sailing to the top of the hit parade once more. |
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| The Central Powers knew that they could not win a protracted war, but they held high hopes for success based on a final quick offensive. |
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| His first test as leader was the general election in 1992, with the SNP having high hopes of making an electoral breakthrough. |
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| Other nationalists had high hopes for the German unification movement, and the frustration with lasting German unification after 1850 seemed to set the national movement back. |
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